What key is my native flute? Best way to find out!
Вставка
- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- I get emails from folks all the time saying they don't know what key their flute is and how to tell what key it is. This video will help you find the key!
Soundcorset is my recommended tuner (and so much more!) when it comes to playing and teaching the Native American flute. It's available in both the App Store and Google Play for free!
Thanks for watching! leave a comment below if you found this helpful.
Want to learn to play the Native flute? Check out my teaching platform and all the perks that go along with it: horizonsflutesc...
Like the sound and look of the flute that I'm playing in this video? It's made by Brent Haines of Woodsounds flutes. You can get $50 off your next Woodsounds flutes with my code LIPFORD at checkout. woodsounds.com
********************
🖥️ ONLINE LEARNING FOR THE NATIVE FLUTE 🖥️
Work with me through e-courses, tutorials, virtual workshops and 1:1 Lessons: bit.ly/jl-flute...
Just starting out? This is for you: bit.ly/jl-BYJ
📙 WRITE BETTER SONGS, FASTER 📙
Songwriting Shortcuts for the Native American Flute: bit.ly/jl-songw...
🎯 FREE 4-DAY EMBELLISHMENT WALKTHROUGH 🎯
You’ll learn 4 powerful embellishments to add to your flute playing! bit.ly/jl-4day-emb
📌 SUBSCRIBE FOR NEW VIDEOS 📌
Subscribe UA-cam: bit.ly/2DSXicJ
📘 RESOURCES 📘
Sheet Music: bit.ly/jl-sheet...
Backing Tracks: bit.ly/jl-backi...
Lessons, e-Courses, Tutorials & More: bit.ly/jl-flute...
Buy your first Native American flute: bit.ly/jl-flutes
Get a deal on a Native flute: bit.ly/nativef...
❤️ FLUTE TIP VIDEOS ❤️
5 Tips to Dramatically Improve Your Flute Playing: • Five tips to dramatica...
Tips for Playing Bass Native Flutes: • Tips for Playing Bass ...
How to Get Vibrato on Your Native American Flute: • How to get Vibrato on ...
Flute Playing Tips Playlist: bit.ly/jl-yt-fl...
🌱 GROW AS A FLUTE PLAYER 🌱
Play Along with Ambient Pads: bit.ly/jl-ambie...
Get in the Groove with Percussion Backing Tracks: bit.ly/jl-TR
Download a Super Helpful Flute Tutorial: bit.ly/DYNAF-dig
🎤 GEAR 🎤
The gear that I use and recommend for gigs, video shoots, recording, sound healing, meditations and daily life!: amzn.to/2SpAEME
🎁 FREE STUFF 🎁
Free Native American Flute Music Downloads: bit.ly/jl-3-free
✌️ CONNECT ✌️
Website: bit.ly/2BIlTMe
Facebook: bit.ly/2jeOVLW
Twitter: bit.ly/2iUQgui
Instagram: bit.ly/2BB3e4n
⭐ CREDITS ⭐
Filmed by Maria Lipford
Edited by Jonny Lipford
🏳️ DISCLAIMERS 🏳️
I am an ambassador or affiliate for many items I reference on the channel. As an Amazon Associate and eBay Partner, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Cool video Jonny, thanks for sharing. I use my phone tuner app and also my guitar tuner. They come in very handy when you are not sure of the key you flute is.
You bet!
Enjoyed. Appreciated. Well done. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
Great video, Jonny! Now you can catch those unscrupulous and shoddy flute makers who claim that their poorly tuned flute is just "not tuned to a Western scale..." as an excuse. If your flute seems out of tune, but you just don't know how it is out of tune... In addition to the phone app you feature on this video, you can just use an electronic tuner.
Cool video, but you didn't explain how to determine what key the flute is in. You indicated that your root note is G, yet did not proceed to demonstrate how you know the key. :}
Good point! On a modern Native American flute, the root note, the fundamental is the key. Most flute makers will mark the flute somewhere on the flute body too, as an indicator, maybe even just inside the barrel of the flute at the foot.
When you hold all 6 fingers down, that is the key the flute is in. On the app, the note registering when all 6 holes are closed is the key of the flute.
Two questions …. Totally unrelated to this although I am going to compare your tuner to the one I have….. BUT…. 1) Any chance you’ll be at Native Rhythms 2022 in November? And 2) your flute racks … where did you find those?? And those look like metal … are they? And do I remember correctly that you also have acrylic ones? And if so, those can be found where???
Hey Jonny! Good video..... I do have a question though on the recommendation of following your Chromatic Scale chart to help find the key of a flute that may be in question. Doesn't that chart assume that the flute is more of a Modern NAS Flute? If we have a flute that doesn't match note for note... it could very well be tuned to a different scale (Diatonic, mode 2/5, and what I'll just call "Exotic Tuning" flutes), or given some of the flutes made by Butch Hall (some older ones required different fingering is what I had read somewhere) or the Amon Olorin Flutes by Ken Light need different fingerings on the octave note don't they? Granted... I haven't sat down and studied your chart extensively, but it doesn't work for two flutes I tried that were "a little different", but not tuned incorrectly.
That is absolutely correct, Brent! Thanks for pointing that out. Alternate tunings, exotic tunings have their own progression of notes specific to those scales or just the flute itself, and the Chromatic Scale Chart that I offer is for the common modern NAF in the pentatonic minor scale. That being said, there are alternate fingerings offered on the chart for when the usual fingering does not fit a given flute. That is where the beauty comes in, especially on those upper register notes. There are several alternate fingerings to which need to be tested. This is a good way to be sure that a flute is not written off as a "bad" flute. Just works a bit differently. I tell my students to "know" their flutes and I offer sheets for documenting those unusual flutes so that they can be played with modern music.